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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1330",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-mandatory-awards-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Parental contribution",
  "text": "(1) The parental contribution shall, subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) be in any case in which the residual income is £20,480 or more £45 with the addition of £1 for every complete £9.50 by which it exceeds £20,480, reduced in each case in respect of each child of the parent (other than the student) who is wholly or mainly dependent on him on the first day of the year for which the contribution falls to be ascertained, by £81; and in any case in which the residual income is less than £20,480 the parental contribution shall be nil.\n(2) The amount or (where a contribution is ascertained in respect of more than one child of the parent) the aggregate amount of the parental contribution shall in no case exceed £6,749.\n(3) For any year in which a statutory award is held by—\n(a) more than one child of the parent;\n(b) the parent; or\n(c) the student’s step-parent,\nthe parental contribution for the student shall be such proportion of any contribution ascertained in accordance with this Part as the authority (after consultation with any other authority concerned) consider just; provided that where a contribution is ascertained in respect of more than one child of the parent the aggregate amount of the contributions in respect of each shall not exceed the amount of the contribution that would be ascertained if only one child held an award.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/3060",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002"
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    {
      "type": "am (3.1.2003)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/3060",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2089",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Mandatory Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 2002"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}